How to Use boulder in a Sentence

boulder

noun

• Trust the car, wait for the brakes, and slide four feet down the face of a boulder half the size of the Bronco.
  — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• The car was lodged on top of a large boulder, with both front tires off the ground.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• The crew made its way through a creek and around boulders to reach the hiker.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• That whole process was like rolling a boulder up a hill.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 30 June 2022
• Once landed, the crew made their way through the creek and boulders to the hiker.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Once past the boulder-jumbled gully, the road heads up the east face of the canyon wall.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
• The two men hacked away at rocks and sand in a crevice between boulders.
  — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• And then Marcus Jones launched the biggest boulder of the day.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The movement of the boulder can be seen in the slider below.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• The boulder is always waiting to be rolled up the hill.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• Climbers get four minutes to reach the top of the boulder with both hands, and there are four boulders in the round.
  — Sandy Hooper, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• The boulder was deposited there, of course, by a glacier.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The rover came upon a white-striped rock within the field of blue boulders.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2024
• All of this with miles of scrub and boulders and endless sky right outside the door.
  — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• In Paris, medals will be awarded for both speed and for the combo of lead and boulder.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2021
• The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Turn left and hike up for about a half mile over a boulder field to Statue Lake.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
• Alexandra reached a boulder by shore and yelled for help.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• Hell, there’s even run-from-the-boulder style segments.
  — Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be easy to miss.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Joel picks up a nearby boulder as big as a car and heaves it at the red unicorn.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
• On Asahi-dake, hikers are told to look for a big square boulder, known as Safe Rock.
  — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
• The stone is an erratic, a boulder that was moved by the glaciers that pushed through the state thousands of years ago.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• Think of cobbles and boulders instead of beachy (sand) bars.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
• The landscape was a steep boulder field with three-foot-tall tufts of mountain grass between the rocks.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• There's a nice rope bridge on this one, and for those who dare, Jump Rock, a boulder sticking out of the Red River.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• Instead, these frogs left their egg masses on leaves and mossy boulders above the ground.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• The construction site hemmed in by large boulders, rocks and the ocean on one side and a steep incline on the other.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Each boulder has one tree nestled up right next to it, as if the rock had slid into a tree and stopped.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• The best part of the property is the neighboring trail among boulders, where someone long ago carved and painted all sort of faces and creatures.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024